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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Re: PHP Annotations RFC + Patch
From: smalyshev@sugarcrm.com (Stas Malyshev)

Hi!

> Could PHP as a language be kept "pure" by first implementing python
> decorators*, then implement annotations using a purpose-built
> decorator?

No, we can't have python decorators because unlike Python PHP functions 
and classes aren't first-class objects. In Python, this:

@dec2
@dec1
def func(arg1, arg2, ...):
     pass

means this:

def func(arg1, arg2, ...):
     pass
func = dec2(dec1(func))

However, you can't write equivalent code in PHP.
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